The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 12, 1916, Page 2

Sunbeams from Nyhart. Not wishing to controvert. the time honored assertion that ‘‘ Hon- esty is the best way to keep ,out of jail’’ or words to that effect, I want to ask, if my neighbor plants melon seed on his lot and the vine tresspasses on my lot by 2reepin HUDSON TOWNSHIP FAIR " Assistant Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture Writes of His Visit to Hudson. W. L. Nelson, of Columbia, as- sistant secretary of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. made eee through my fence and deposits a mélon on my end of said vine, would I be strictly honest if I only kept half of said melon, or should [ keep it all? I paid ‘‘six bits’* to see ‘‘The Birth of a Nation’’ the same be- ing a good show, Also it was ‘surrounded’? by some of the very finest ‘‘horn tooters’”’ I ever an address at the sixth annua meeting of the. Hudson Farm and Home Improvemént Club, and on his return to Columbia, wrote an interesting letter to the Missouri Farmer, describing his trip. The following part of the letter is tak- en from the Appleton City Jour- nal: ‘795 Model 85-4 f.0.b. Toledo “The resourcefulness of the peo- ple and the diversity of the erops had been proven at the splendid meeting we had that day attend- ed. This was the sixth annual meeting of the Hudson Farm and It was really a community fair, -a-farm- Home Improvement Club. ers’ institute and a neighborhood pienic combined, and seldom have we attended a meeting fuller of inspiration or that gave greater proof of the power of the people when combined and rightly direct- ed. > “Some thought that we ought not try to have our little fair this year,’ said one man ‘as the season had been unfavorable, but we just didn’t want to disappoint the boys and girls, many of whom had worked all summer in the hope of having something to enter. There (and he pointed to a big water- melon), for instance, is a melon grown by a little girl who week after week carried water to keep the vine alive. Do you think we would want to disappoint her? And there are others who worked hard, too. No’sir, we can’t afford to give our boys and girls—our best crop—a set back.’ This was - the spirit of the occasion; this speaker was but the spokesman for many, . "tn the school house—a good school house, too—was a magnifi- vent display of kitchen and pan- try stores and of other work ga- “Jore, But the ‘real display’? was on long tables in’ the beautiful grove where a fine dinner was served with the best of sauee— hospitality. After dinner there was good imusie by the Club or- chestra, made up of farmers and trained and directed by a young farmer who only afew years ago came to make America his home. Speaking followed the — music Then there were games and con- tests for young and old, Ah, but it was good to see all tlie people at, play and pleasure—none too dig- nified, too busy, or too old to enter into the spirit of the occasi ‘* Among the many prizes ed was one for the oldest couple. It chanced that in our four mile auto trip from ‘the train we had ridden with this splendid man and woman, whose combined ages to- tal 154 years. But they are not old, not in thoughts. The wrink- les with which time has wreathed their faces are but the siniles of age. For more than half a cen- tury has this community been their home. As we journeyed out from town and as the car rounded a eurve in the road below. which spread a valley full of farms and beyond which were hills, the only ones in view, the car was stopped. Pointing to the hills, the good wo- man—the ‘‘better half’’ of that more than a century and a half— who helped win this region from the primitive prairie, said ‘1 call those my mountains and many have been the times when I have come up here and looked away to- ward them for help and rest and inspiration.’ As this nature lover spoke and opened her heart, even to a stranger, we thought of the hope once expressed by the late John Muir, the seer of the Sierras, Writing to a young friend, he said he hoped that she ‘would find that going up the mountains is go- ing home and that Christ’s ser- mon on the Mount is on every mount,’ < “®o as our train carried us to- ward home at that day end and week end we felt that it had been a privilege to know more intimate- ly such a land and such a people. And the thought came to us that what Missouri needs is more such organizations-as the Hudson Farm and Home Improvement Club and the neighboring clubs that have grown out from it, not as compet- itors, but as co-operators. Thus will be developed rural pride and rural -profit—W. L. Nelson.” “Fire, lightning and tornadoes have no rules of warfare, saw or heard. to the corn crib before spring. The open season for erratic in his movements. your ammunition is ready for you at the Nyhart Emporium. Last week Mayor-Campbell took Mr. R. J. Sprouls and family in his ‘‘jitney’’ and motored over to L. K. Boehms place east of Drexel, Mo., where Mr. Sprouls and fam- ily Spent the day visiting. The Mayor drove + miles west of Drexel and spent the day with his old friends, Mr. and. Mrs. Win Hickman. Win has 160 acres of fine land, considerable stock, con- sisting of hogs, sheep and cattle and he has plenty of feed of all kinds to carry his stock. through the winter. This world is full of trouble— automobiles, “Fords. and dry weather, As soomas we are born we start for the ‘*boneyard’’ and the longer we live the faster we go-— that is if'we are able to buy a car—selah, KE. E. Wilson of Hume, Mo., is a very busy man. He is shipping hay from our station, He’s a right nice ‘feller’? but ‘‘fussy’’ at times. Still taken by and large he is my style for he is sunny most all the time and any business man who can he sunny these days is built of the right stuff— ‘ain't it.” J. A. Patterson and family at- tended Old Settlers day last week. Dov said he just went along to take the folks to the picture show but say—the yarns Doe will spin when he meets his old cronies will bée worth hearing believe me. Fred Ahlfeld has joined the ranks of the motorists and is the prond owner of a Ford, He also falls heir to a ‘‘special brand of trouble’’ hitherto him. Oh, well Fred nothing brings out the character like ‘‘get- ting out and getting under.’’ Just be sunny, here’s sympathy. Henry (Hank) Sellers has bills out for his sale October 9, 1916. Looks like everybody is ‘selling out. Some folks can’t stand mis- fortune ‘‘a tall’—me? Now I and misfortune are old pals, What’s the use in quitting, the world hates a qutiter. Keep peg- ging along, smile and be sunny. “Hep yo’ self and de Lord he’ps you.” Wm, Gaston, mother and sister, are moving their household goods to Butler, where they expect to make their future home. The Gastons are nice folks and we re- gret their going from our village. Seems that about all the fire department could do at the recent big fire in Butler was to save the lot and protect other property. The boys are all to the good but the water works system> needs fixing. C. R. Simmons moved his silage eutter to Jim Malone’s today and Jim will proceed to put away his winter rations. Money spent in building silos is certainly well spent and will bring big returns. Let’s hav? more of ’em. When I hear, folks grumbling and growling at things in general and at providence in particular I am reminded of the dog who, when the moon shone bright would sit and howl for hours at the mpon. Finally he gave it up. No use. :The moon just kept on shining. So with us. No use to kick. Just be sunny, do your part and all will be right. ‘* All the world’s a stage and all the people are players’’—uhm, yes so I have heard. Pretty bum lot of players we are at that. If each er would confine him or her- _Furthermore I learned from the picture that it is possible to subsist on parched corn and potato peelings, which infor- Hmation may be very useful as the unprecedented increase in the cost of living may drive yours truly quail shooting will soon be here. ‘ Bet- ter get your hunting license. Pre- paredness means safety. Mr, Pat- terson, an efficient game warden, is very particular and also very So play it safe—get your credentials, motor— Weiss-and Seese are both good fe lows and by the way are-both ot | German extraction, I bet a plugged nickle it would have been hard to tell which got the best of the trade. Find out and leg me know. I want to be a regular fellow and live in a regular way. I want tell you the things that [ learn as [ journey through lite each day. I want to help others earth’s beauties to see, the problems of life understand. In fact I am willing and anxious to be a begh- lar sort of a man. SU VY JIM. : Resolutions of Respect. Whereas, our omnipotent Fath- er has seen fit, in His wisdom, to unknown to! take from our presence and his earthly service our beloved broth- er and Sunday School Superin- tendent, J. Pendleton Smith. And Whereas, the Sunday School of the First Baptist Church of But- ler, Missouri, feel that in the sud- den passing of our brother and Superintendent, we have lost the loyal services of a noble man, a real christian, and a tireless, un- selfish worker in the upbuilding of his ehureh, Sunday school, and the Kingdom of his Master, Therefore, be it resolved, by the members of the Sunday school of the First Baptist Church of But- ler, Missouri, that in the death of our friend, brother and Superin- tendent, we have suffered a loss to be borne only in the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows Nest, and to whose will we sub- missively bow. And be it further resolved that it will be for the good of each of us to try to emulate the life and conduct of our departed brother, in his sineerety, faithfulness, loy- alty, and untireing service for his chureh and Sunday school. And that we extend our heartfelt sym- pathy, in the true christian spirit, to his sorrowing . relatives, and those who loved him everywhere. d W. B, Dawson, Justine W. Stanley, J.B. Walton, Committee. Mt. Pleasant Township Sunday Association Elects - School ‘The Mt. Pleasant’ Sunday School Association held a very interesting meeting at the M. EB. Church South in. this city Sunday afternoon. Several good talks were made by Sunday School workers and tlie following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Miss‘Ora- Thompson, president; T. L. Beach, vice-president; Mrs. Chester Sleeth, secretary Bs tredsurer; Miss Lulia Short. el mentary superintendent; Think of It—112 Inch Wheelbase! - : Tt has the famous Overland 35 horsepower Now at the height of its development— More than a quarter of a million in use— Driving more automobiles than any other motor of its power ever designed. And never before has anyone anywhere ever - built so big, fine and comfortable a car to sell for anywhere near so'low a price. CLINKENBEARD & ISLEY BUTLER, MO., Phones 229, 516 The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio “Mado'in U. S. A."* |NINE KILLED IN COLLEGE, FIRE * ‘Christian Brothers College in St. Louis Burns. One of the | Largest Church Schools in our State. St. Louis, Oct. 5.—Nine men, in- cluding five city firemen and two jaged members of the Christian} | Brothers order, were killed here |today when fire destroyed the ; central portion_of the main build- \ing of Christian Brothers college. The aged brothers, who ‘had | been on the retired list for several | months, had been in the infirmary jon the fifth floor, where they were! (trapped. A male nurse, in attend- | jance on them, also was’ killed/ | when he dropped from the fifth | floor window. Firemen © were! climbing a ladder to rescue him. Twelve firemen on the third floor were carried into the base- ment when a wall collapsed. The bodies of five were recovered dur- ing the afternoon. Seven were! taken out badly injured. Several brothers remained be-| hind and carried out the sacred | ‘vessels and the priestly vestments from the college chapel. The property loss is estimated at more than $300,000, partially covered by insurance. The entire central portion of the ‘ building was wrecked, but two wings were saved. The wireless apparatus on the roof, one of the most complete in America, was destroyed. The natural history and curio museum also was destroyed. Mobbed Councilmen. Oilton, Ok., Oct. 7.—A tte of more than three hundred citizens, heavily armed and one of their number carrying a rope, sur- rounded the city hall here to- night with the apparent intention of lynching E. K. Srank and 8. W. Abshire, councilmen, because of | their approval of a contractor’s | bond for the construction of a new water works system. Srank was dragged from the building and through the streets and was badly injured -by flying stones and other missiles. : “He was rescued by the- police as the man with the repe was about to drop the noose over his head, and hurried to a nearby .building, from which he escaped through a back door while the police held off the mob. The men pursued the motor car ‘in ~ which Srank was driven away by a wo- man and several shots were fired. Green Feed in Winter. Why don’t your fens lay when eggs are hight They do not get the chemical ingredients that ‘th UNTIL NOVEMBER FIRST Priced at $: 5 The wheelbase is 112 inches. It has cantilever springs and four inch tires. And the price is $795. See us at once—they are selling faster than wecan get them. ~ Model 85-6, six cylindér 35-40 horsepower, 116-inch wheelbase—$925. RICH HILL, MO.,._Phone 157° JUST ARRIVED New Peaches, Prunes, Apricots and Figs They have Fresh Celery, Grapes, Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, Cranberries, Horse Radish, Mustard, Catsup, Ripe Olives, Olive Oil, Olives, Tuna Fish, Deviled Tuna Fish, Baked Beans. - a ee 1 Dozen Large GOOD OYSTERS for...$1.85 11 Pounds Lima Beans for........:....$1.00 16 Pounds Good Rice for.:..............$1.00 clean You will always find it nice, fresh and ; and always at the right price at Gosnell’s Grocery PHONE, 77 } Three Times as. | 2 Large as Butler. © |~ _ Show Three Times as Large as the Star 000 Missouri County Seat Town u- After: thaf date it will sell for mor SHEYS >} sted "Only one other show in the town. 5 ¢ ies